Centre for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)

Shale Drives Uncertain New Geoeconomics of Oil

By Emilio Godoy
The emergence of fracking has modified the global market for fossil fuels. But the plunge in oil prices has diluted the effect, in a struggle that experts in the United States believe conventional producers could win in the next decade.

Legal Battles Against Opening Up Mexico’s Oil Industry

By Emilio Godoy
As Mexico moves towards a controversial reform that would be the largest opening of the oil industry to foreign investors in decades, local communities and non-governmental organisations are fighting in court against earlier contracts with foreign companies, which have been possible since 2008.


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